Overview:

Rail and truck scheduling is the next step in C3 after rail and truck contracts are entered. The rail and truck module facilitates matching of supply and demand contracts on a real time basis. Actualizations feed directly to subsequent accounting modules after actualization is complete.

Features:

• Ability to schedule purchases, exchanges, sales, and inventory from a single screen
  
• Availability of real time scheduled and delivered contract volumes while scheduling contracts
  
• Ability to group multi car or truck movements together on a single order for simpler tracking of shipments
  
• Automated tracking of intransit balances on rail movements
  
• Ability to add secondary costs on a movement by movement basis
  
• Automatic feed to invoicing and accrual modules after actualization
  

Advantages:

• Simplified management of scheduled and unscheduled volumes
  
• Centralized scheduling of all transportation modes when used in conjunction with other modules
  
• Flexible reporting of current physical positions
  
• One time entry of scheduled and actualized volumes automatically feeds accounting modules
  
• One time entry of secondary costs automatically feeds accounting modules
  

Benefits:

• Timely knowledge of physical positions
  
• Single resource for scheduled and unscheduled positions
  
• Confidence in decision making for managing market changes
  
• Direct integration with contract and accounting modules